The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What decision is made by the judge at the end of the chapter?
Chapter5: Pap Starts In on a New Life
Chapter5: Pap Starts In on a New Life
The new judge then sympathetically takes Pap into his home, dresses him well, and tries to reform him. After thinking that he has reformed Pap, the Judge goes to bed. That night, Pap sneaks out of the new judge's house and buys some alcohol. By morning he is so drunk that he breaks his arm in two places and nearly freezes to death on the porch. The new judge is livid at this betrayal of his trust and comments that the only way to reform Pap is with a shotgun.